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- Title
Fish oil supplementation in the parenteral nutrition of critically ill medical patients: a randomised controlled trial.
- Authors
Friesecke, Sigrun; Lotze, Christian; Köhler, Jenny; Heinrich, Annegret; Felix, Stephan B; Abel, Peter
- Abstract
To test whether supplementation of parenteral nutrition with fish oil - aimed at increasing the n-3:n-6 ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) to 1:2 - affects systemic inflammation and clinical outcome compared to standard parenteral nutrition with an n-3/n-6 ratio of 1:7 in medical intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
- Publication
Intensive care medicine, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1411
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-008-1072-1